Well, eager to get
on with the strip-down I set about taking things off and bagging them up
in small sandwich type bags for easy identification later. As more a more
things came off the car, it was apparent that the dreaded tin-worm had got
into almost all the places it could, and to make things worse, an un-sympathetic
welder-wanna-bee had practiced their lack of skill all over her.

At this point I could
get easily depressed and give up, but I suppose I owe it to the old girl
to try and give her a new lease of life. Anyway, I had some good fortune
in that I found a guy locally with a barn full of Heralds (amongst most other
makes of old car) and he fortunately had a very good chassis and passenger
door, so that will save me a ton of work on welding.

And check out the hard-top!
The same guy and a bit of haggling later and hey-presto a nice new hard hat
for the old girl.

You'll notice the windscreen
area and scuttle is a little worse for wear and is probably going to be the
most troublesome. Maybe the whole bulkhead would be worth changing over to
a better secondhand one, I'll have to think on this one.

The outer sills are
in good condition, and the rear wings seem ok (I have found out that the
rear wings are normally okay anyway). The boot floor is not all that bad
and the floors seem up together and although welded, can be tidied up easily.

The chassis is completely
shot in quite a few places and prompted me to look for a good secondhand
one, so I am heaving a big sigh of relief that I don't need to jig up for
new outriggers and rails.

The next stage is to
clean up and repaint the new chassis and start stripping the bits off to
swap over. I am presuming that I will have to replace most of the rubber
bushings and mounts as they have been sat for a number of years and probably
perished.

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